skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty apparent in UK high streets too.

Whenever I visit my parents, the high street of their local town feels dead compared to when I was a kid. 100 years ago this town was the trade capital of the region.

Half the shops are boarded up, and whatever is left feels like it's running on limited time. Banks make up a good chunk of units, and they still only exist as my parents' generation don't do online banking.

When I was a kid it would be common to see vans (food trucks) selling locally produced meats, pastries, cheese, bread, etc. Last time I visited there was only one, selling vapes.

In bigger cities it's not uncommon for areas near high streets to be redeveloped into mixed used, with commercial on the ground floor and apartments above. I'm guessing in 20 or 30 years the concept of a 'high street' I knew as a kid will only exist as a tourist destination.

This has an issue in itself though, as a lot of these are are historic buildings. You are restricted to what changes can be done, and as-is they wouldn't make very good apartments (low ceilings, weird layouts, poor insulation/sound proofing, questionable fire safety, no parking).
Already pointed here: avoid letting your nose pointing down (adjust your screen position, raise your smartphone while using it...). And avoid bad stress (=> relax).

Do not sit down for more than approx 1 hour (=> periodically walk for at least 3 minutes).

Get a 'tui na' massage by a serious (probably Chinese) practitioner.

Twice a week either hit the gym or swim (moderately train, whatever not dangerous discipline you like).
Single zoned commercial is on its way out. Mixed use is in.

Unfortunately the common person today won’t take advantage. Only the rich will be able to reap the benefits.

At least future generations will have a place to live if this trend continues. Hopefully something that is affordable on UBI if the “AI revolution” really takes off
A Man from Earth
Yes, but not just from one singular location they could go instead. It isn’t easy setting up in Shanghai and Bangalore.
Energy density for cars doesn't matter as long as it's above a certain minimum that lets the cars travel ~500km (~300 miles).

Once they reach that number, car companies mostly care about cost - higher energy density reduces the weight of the car, which lowers the material costs of the rest of the car, but a big reduction on the cost of the battery does effectively the same thing. Ideally they want a dirt-cheap battery that's also high capacity, but then so does everyone.
I spoke with an Uber driver about this recently, and one of Uber's barriers to entry is their phenomenal data on roads. As an example, they know for every apartment complex, where you'd drive around inside to drop off food as oftentimes you can't just go to the front. Or which parts of a road have no stopping zones along with the schedules. Bus stops too. And the app will guide you to get a pickup where the Uber driver is actually allowed to stop.

Drivers are interested in those features because it makes them more efficient. And having a critical mass of drivers is what makes it possible to get a ride in a few minutes. There are other upstarts, but they don't have many drivers, and your potential user market doesn't scale linearly with drivers because nobody wants to wait 30 minutes to get a ride (even with crazy discounts).
All with different trade offs to be made.
Which model did you use?
For the life of me I cannot understand how forced arbitration is legal. For the most part, you can't sign away your fundamental rights: if you sign a contract in which you forfeit your right to vote or to practice a particular religion, for example, that contract is invalid. Surely if your right to due process doesn't have this type of protection, it should.
Here are four lecturers talking about being barred (as well as many students): https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/yokra13903890

None of them are Davidai and all of them look very dangerous (sarcasm). I've read what Davidai wrote and the claims that he's harassing seem ridiculous. He's trying to fight harassment from people who literally support terrorism and are hurting both sides of the conflict.

NYU president Linda Mills said she received threats and even bomb threats:
https://nyunews.com/news/2024/05/03/mills-email-paulson-cent...

But US press doesn't write many of these stories because it doesn't fit the narrative of the publishers.

Here's a Stanford student dressed as a Hamas terrorist just for the general picture: https://ynet-pic1.yit.co.il/cdn-cgi/image/f=auto,w=740,q=75/...
> My binary implementation was probably spending almost all of its time waiting to read or write numbers from RAM due to L1 cache misses. I did not know at the time how to actually test this, but I thought let's try a more memory efficient version anyway and see if it improves things.

The text never comes back to this, but the answer is that a handful of 1-2KB numbers fit into L1 just fine, and even if they didn't there's a megabyte or more of L2 that takes about 3ns to access.

> It goes without saying that probably none of this is actually cryptographically secure, but that was never the point anyway.

Hmm. This is just the prime generation, so it avoids most RSA pitfalls, and urandom had better be secure. So if this code works at all then there's not much that could go wrong. RSA has a few issues with weak primes to avoid but I don't know if they're likely enough to matter here.
Speaking of, did FairPhone get the whole "making a phone call" thing figured out yet?
I’m imagining a version of your app where the artist profile display is a solid color (chosen by the artist), the profile is an audio clip, and when the second person swipes right, it displays a text box that sends a message to the other person.

In v2, you could add profile pics, but the hard part would be finding artists similar to previously “liked” ones.

Is there a foundation model for music yet? If so, I think it’s just a matter of sticking an embedding for each audio clip into pgvector or whatever.

Anyway, since the gui has no text, you get internationalization on day one!
Japan ministry asks Line, Yahoo operator to shed Naver influence
I log off.
The elephant in the room is whether Elon's recreational pharmaceuticals are affecting his decision making.
Ya, you know 25 or so years ago, SF wasn’t the place to do tech, that was more mid and South Bay. Then it was for awhile, and maybe it isn’t going to be much of a place for it again.

I really wish the techs would fully embrace remote work and then just equalize pay already. You can work and live where you want, although you might not get paid enough to live in SF, but it’s your choice and problem.
> not interesting enough to find a way around

But interesting enough to comment about. hahahaha :) But how do you know it's not interesting for you if you couldn't read it? Hahahaha! :)

Tho could be an Australian thing I guess, they're having a bit of an issue there at the moment seems. Would be interesting to see some statistics tho, like trends over time.

Check it out: https://web.archive.org/web/20240503033820/https://www.smh.c...

hahahaha! :)
Modern civil law seems to revolve around this quaint fiction of contracts being some sort of "meeting of the minds" of relatively equally resourced parties.

This might have been viable in 1795, but it feels ill suited to a world where we have billion dollar firms, legal staff on retainer, and contracts that have been revised like a codebase... versus consumers with no formal legal training.

Even if there wasn't an inherent inequality of field, the high cost of litigation also encourages a tendency to ask for the unreasonable. The people presenting the contract know there's probably not enough money in it for anyone but the wealthy and begrudged to try to challenge the contract, so there's little risk to asking for more permissions, less liability, and tighter binding on the consumer. In the worst case, the cost serves as an effective bludgeon for abusive behaviour: they'll go along because they can't afford to get a favourable judgement.

I dream of a world where there's no surprises in contracts-- basically there'd be a book of standard contracts filled out in a Mad Lib fashion. This would collapse a lot of the possibilities courts would have to deal with, resulting in a faster, predictable, almost deterministic legal system. If someone actually wanted to bring out a new clause, it would have to go through a highly-visible, paperwork-intensive vetting and discussion process. The Discords of the world then have to face very public scrutiny of their actions and motives: what makes your needs so special that they can't be dealt with using the standard contract for data services?
Ergonomic keyboard may alleviate pain in your fingers.
> Unfortunately the common person today won’t take advantage. Only the rich will be able to reap the benefits.

All supply helps the common person whether they can afford it or not, people pull out this trope all the time and it's completely wrong.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/7/25/why-are-develo...
Sure, in the hypothetical where the person also decided to learn to type properly. If someone is plenty fast for their needs then it doesn't really matter, though.
What I find most interesting about the data, is that this trend actually seems to be more pronounced in richer countries. My initial hypothesis was that it was people in poorer countries coming online with older, cheaper hardware, unable to meet win11's requirements.

Keep in mind this wasn't a real scientific analysis or anything.
Ah I mistyped there, jointers are actually what I meant rather than planers! I use hand planes when jointing boards and forget that power planers aren't that fancy.

I don't remember hearing about any serious planer injuries (though I'm sure it happens), jointers on the other hand are more ornery than an alligator with all them teeth and no toothbrush.
The only 'banking' app I've had not work on GrapheneOS is Cash App, but then I just go to the website and use the web UI.
“Ceasing support” should not mean the product fundamentally changes. If I buy a smart thermostat, I expect it to be and remain a smart thermostat. It should work exactly as the day it was purchased, forever. A bait and switch is still a bait and switch even if the switch happens 16 years later.

This should absolutely 100% be illegal.

I don’t want to hear boo hoo whiny excuses about how hard it is to keep a server running. If you as a company can’t do it, you have no business selling a connected device that depends on a server.
> could hold lessons for cities around the world

Lake-house owning people will not be happy about someone farming in the middle of their precious lake.
There is some premium to be paid to choose when you get the electricity and when you decide it is a convenient time to shut down for maintenance.

If the alternative is having no lights and no industry operating the extra cost of dispatchable power pales in comparison to the losses due to blackouts.
Prioritize and stick with a given project until done. Then refresh priorities list, pick top one and repeat.

It is terrific having lots of interests and choices. But frantic multi-tasking just leads to burn-out and the clutter of incomplete undertakings.
> You object to this because it's not available, then you point to SMRs, which don't exist now except on slides

Right. Long-term large scale hydrogen manufacturing and storage (presumably as ammonia) is not a thing, not to the tune of several percentage points of primary generation. This is speculative, like SMRs.

> Hydrogen + batteries are nicely complementary and enable renewables to undercut new construction nuclear even for supplying baseload power

The math doesn’t work with current technology. Not at that scale. (The lithium alone would be orders of magnitude more than what is forecast to be needed for EVs.)
Because you've got to take care of your sick mother was very famously a reason. But there's an more serious reason: you can hire an incredible depth of experts here you can't anywhere else, who are immersed in informal networks that diffuse innovation.

Why do hedge funds pick Manhattan? Why are all the watchmakers in Jura? Why are biotech firms in Boston and New Jersey? Why are all the US car companies in Detroit? The answer is thick hiring markets and agglomerative efficiencies. Top people don't sell equities in Dallas.
I learned to use a lathe in highschool for shop class in the mid 2000s, was this abnormal?
I moved a company out of a high rise. The company was a media post type company in a building full of financial and lawyer types. After the company moved, the 8600+ sqft of office space remained vacant for at least 4 years. After that, life moved on and I didn't spend much time in that area any more to see how long it stayed empty. There was a pub that was next door, and at night the empty space had the security lights on that allowed seeing into the space to see in that it looked exactly how it looked when we left. It became a running joke each time I went to the pub to see the exact same bit of armored cable hanging from the ceiling where the tiles were never put back in place. I just assumed it was more valuable as a loss for a write off since 8600 * >$30/sqft seems like a lot of money to not be made.
Cool project, love the quick access!

It would be nice to have some multi-paragraph chunks.

It might also be nice to have a toggle to randomize the text on each copy, so subsequent copies get different words.
“Information theory” might be a misnomer.
My point is that nuclear isn’t suitable for peaking, and given the lead times and capex for building new plants, and the rapidly declining price of storage, it makes them an undesirable financial investment especially when you consider that renewable overcapacity will shift the need from baseload to backup. The better bet is storage, with gas peakers tiding us over for the next 1-2 decades before they are obsolete too
On 64-bit hosts using the full widening multiplier requires that you use 128 bit integers-- which aren't portable. :( (in particular, MSVC doesn't have it last I checked). It's the obvious thing to do where they exist however.
I know the Act, gut I don't think it's "true".
Even "standard" tools have dangers. I was wearing gloves to protect my hands and was using an impact driver to loosen a nut... and I tapped the trigger, tool ran, my glove wound around the socket and pulled my finger in. Hurt my finger, luckily didn't break/permanently damage it. Took a second. I wouldn't have predicted.
On slow hardware you're much better off generating elliptic curve keys. Otherwise you wait a long time or compromise on future proof security.
Funny how this sentiment is coming from a "PE" "trader", demanding that the pragmatism absolutely needs to be applied in the reverse, to be oh so considerate of the esteemed monied interests, they're fragile, they must not be rejected for any reason... remember, they have the capital!

The poor sod that wants to reapply for a full time role after getting rejected once? The nerve! Who do they think they are!? We are the last word, don't they know? They need to have therapy.

There's a thousand others out there. I'm not going to throw away more of my life to make sure someone with a few more zeroes in their accounts feels seen.

Thanks for your diagnosis, I am cured now. Huge weight off my shoulders.
Since the US ones are disposable anyway, here are come comparables for well under $3K (often under $1K)

https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-Electric-wheelchair.ht...

No idea if it makes more sense to buy those, design from scratch, use those for inspiration, or buy one, tear it down, and rip off the bill of materials.
Came here to say this-- and to also point out that if you look through loop at SF real-estate you will see lots of stuff at $/sqft that just don't make sense in the current market.
A 16 year lifespan is pretty good for “smart” electronics.

What do you think an IOT devices guaranteed lifespan should be?
> This seems not far off from Q-Anon on the other side of the political aisle.

You either didn’t pay much attention to the sheer insanity of Q-Anon, or you view the world through an extremely partisan lens. Mentioning these two things in the same sentence is itself insane.

> Democrat-Party

I’ll put my money on option 2.
I don't know how to play, but I would like to.

I'm the kind of person that needs stuff to be a group activity or I lose interest very very quickly.

Clone the app and call it L2Play, there's a bunch of noobs just like me.

edit - Lock it geographically, but not temporally. I'm as interested now as I was 6 months ago and will be 6 months from now.
As a daily user of ai coding tools, I think if you don’t have criticisms of the tools you probably aren’t using them on production code.

I don’t think many would describe Yann Lecun as threatened by these tools, here’s his take on the LLM approach: https://youtu.be/MiqLoAZFRSE?si=415gg2vhjz2Sd84s
I think you’d want the money to be held by an organisation which is respectable and has some backing and track record - e.g. the OSI, FSF, Linux Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy - orgs like that are unlikely to redirect the funds into something completely unrelated.

There does need to be some flexibility however - e.g. if a project is defunct and nobody wants to work on it, it is stupid just to leave funding in a bank account forever. But if you give it to another open source project (preferably one in the same area) I think that is fine. Adding it to the coffers of a for-profit company isn’t

And it might be reasonable for a not-for-profit to contract with a for-profit firm to administer such a funding scheme - but they should only be trustees of the funds (so if they go bankrupt the creditors can’t touch it) and they only get paid a defined percentage as a fee for service
So? The comment just expands the state of default in the area in broader terms that follows this article. If all of the workers from buildings like this disappear, it follows that the customers would also disappear for the shops in the area. That is proven by comments like this to show the theory has merit.
I had a similar reaction--I know exactly what that dial does, my reaction was "it determines how hard the drill will screw something in until the front part starts going tick-tick-tick."

On a physical level I know what it does and when to use it (all the way up for drill bits, really low for screws going into a soft material), but when I saw the questions I had no idea what the correct answer was.

I've always found drills to be extremely intuitive--it's four really simple physical binary things: squeeze the trigger to make it go, flip the switch on top to make it go faster, turn the dial to make it it stop before it goes too hard, and punch the toggle to make it go the other way. I wish software was that easy.
Because they’re burning money.
As a recent Kagi subscriber who switched to Whoogle, I don't see any drawbacks.
> I just assumed it was more valuable as a loss for a write off since 8600 * >$30/sqft seems like a lot of money to not be made.

That's not how it works. You don't get to write off foregone rent as a loss, only the actual cost of running/maintaining the building.

The guy you replied to had it right; accepting a cheaper rent would cause the building's value to plummet (buildings are valued as a multiple of rents), which would plunge the owners into bankruptcy as they would now owe more than the building is worth. But you can survive a temporary market downturn by never accepting a lower rent so long as it comes back up in time.

The whole thing is silly, and the market is rife for a saner way to valuate properties. Personally I would use a decay factor on top of the last paid rent for vacant properties. E.g. the imputed rent for a vacant lease would decrease by 2% every month (this figure is open to fine-tuning), so that the property is worth less and less with every month that it cannot find a new tenant at its previous rent. Then, when a new actual rent is established and is being paid, you use that figure.
It's also just extracted from the sea. And where salt is mined, the environmental impact is minimal.
You have to look at the actual income statements to see how much they're actually being paid in a year, and look at the signed leases to see how much the building will actually make in future years. It's all part of due diligence for buying a high value commercial property.
The problem with prioritizing security is that it is hard to measure preventing bad things which may happen in the future.

For example, how do you reward employees for investing in security, besides punishing them for security breaches?

I've seen this sort of message come from CEOs but sub organizations optimize for what they're measured against. It's rarely security, tech debt, maintenance, etc.
Did you tell them what was wrong and how it should be fixed (in general terms)? Or I'm guessing your sense was, that would be a complete waste of time because the organization is so dysfunctional that if they _wanted_ to know, they could have figured it out?

Seems that raw pragmatism/self-preservation clashes with conscientiousness in some cases like this.
You should really refresh yourself on Big-O notation.
Their little legs must be so tired
Are you serious? Wheelchairs are not mobility scooters. I don't know much about them, but I can point out some obvious likely differences:

1)The chair has to be comfortable enough to be in almost constantly - for someone whose body may not be shaped the same as most other people's. It may need to be designed in a way that makes it easier for the user to get in and out of, unassisted. That means a substantial part of it is customized to each user, probably in consultation with medical professionals. It may need to carry medical devices/equipment.

2)The chair has to be navigable in indoor spaces with a fine degree of control, by someone who may have lower motor skills and range of motion than others. So it may need customizable response time, input smoothing, and acceleration.

3)The chair cannot, under any circumstances, make an un-commanded motion - which could easily kill the occupant (ie going into traffic, or down a steep hill, or off into water.) That has implications for the physical controls, the electronic controls, and mechanical drives (I'm guessing many chairs have electrical locking, and can use the motors for braking.) Similarly, the chair has to be very reliable, or that could kill the occupant (say, a fire or other emergency where they are) or otherwise be a major inconvenience. If you're unable to move much from your chair and, say, your cell phone is in another room - you're varying levels of screwed.

4)It has to be designed such that fire would be a very low risk.

Are they probably more expensive than they need to be? Yeah. But I'm sure it's nowhere near an order of magnitude, and your comment is pretty ignorant.
For the people scrolling for the pictures, the numbers on the drill indicate how far into the wood you want the screw to go, set lower so it stops with a bit sticking out (to hang a frame on let's say) or set it higher to drive the head into the wood for a flush surface. Different kinds of threading and woods make any kind of chart for this nonintuitive, you just gotta eyeball it and learn.

The bit on the end of a tape measure is similarly designed and ignored.
Ah! That phenomenon where you leave a problem as it is because you get anxious and procrastinate. Then, it began to solve on its own. I love those.
If you need Copilot to code in Python do your really know how to program?